What if she found out after the marriage ceremony, I asked myself? Even if she doesn’t, there was no way I could keep it away from her forever so I told her about it. She was heartbroken and got disappointed in me.

Unfortunately, she left me.

No amount of sorry would have her change her mind and her family sided with her. Even her pastor asked her to call the wedding off after she had discussed it with him. I regretted for telling her but somehow, I felt it was the right thing to do.

For days I begged her to come back so we get married but she wouldn’t agree. I told her calling off the wedding was going to be an embarrassment to our families, taken into consideration the preparations we had made towards it but no! She left me; she left.

For weeks I couldn’t bear the shame because I couldn’t openly tell people why we had to call of the wedding.

I went back to my one-night-stand girl and asked her to move in with my family so my Mum could take care of her but she refused!

I wasn’t going to marry her but I just needed to take care of her and my unborn child.

A month after she told me about the pregnancy, she was celebrating her 25th birthday and requested for an iPhone when I asked her about what she wanted for her birthday.